tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post4372413678866921287..comments2015-07-31T11:28:33.548-05:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: Anticipating the O'Beirners...Pamela Merritthttps://plus.google.com/114081928830034520671noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-63467738811872066042007-04-27T19:21:00.000-05:002007-04-27T19:21:00.000-05:00I didn't have the fortitude to get through the art...I didn't have the fortitude to get through the article and, though I don't like to make it a practice to comment on things without full knowledge, A few paragraphs was enough for me to decipher that Ms. O'Bierne can "believe" and spout such crap because undermining feminism is about supporting classism. The denial of the wage gap is not about patriarchy in and of itself, but the classism that underlies patriarchy. <BR/><BR/>As O'Beirne herself kept asserting, she is a lawyer (privileged) and therefore, had the privilege to choose not to work. Those poor (working class, and educated-poor-working-class)women who do not have that choice do not exist in her universe. they are at the bottom where they belong and do not have a place in the debate.<BR/>That's the infuriating part. It's not all about choices. It's about people being denied choices.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-49167331272767920002007-04-25T11:28:00.000-05:002007-04-25T11:28:00.000-05:00I haven't finished reading the Salon article (beca...I haven't finished reading the Salon article (because I fear it would make my eyes bleed and my blood boil if I read it too quickly), but the whole thing reminds me of these lyrics from a 1988 Laurie Anderson song:<BR/><BR/>"OK! OK! Hold it!<BR/>I just want to say something.<BR/>You know, for every dollar a man makes<BR/>a woman makes 63 cents.<BR/>Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents.<BR/>So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888<BR/>before we make a buck."<BR/><BR/>That's Laurie for you, telling it like it is.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04092417221754047322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-24259494164567500822007-04-25T07:19:00.000-05:002007-04-25T07:19:00.000-05:00I have a serious question here ... will someone te...I have a serious question here ... will someone tell me why corporations don't hire ONLY women seeing as how they can pay them less?<BR/><BR/>That said checkout today's article in the NYTimes' Business section "Wall Street Firm Will Settle Sex Bias Suit".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-33379361199322347442007-04-24T22:58:00.000-05:002007-04-24T22:58:00.000-05:00Agggggghhhhh!!! Reading the salon.com article mak...Agggggghhhhh!!! Reading the salon.com article makes me scream.<BR/><BR/>What world does this woman live in?Saskiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14039459486966511668noreply@blogger.com